Johann Palisa discovered NGC 927 = Sw. III-11 on 18 Jan 1885 with the 27-inch Grubb refractor at the Vienna University Observatory and reported it in AN 2732. This is the only NGC object to be discovered with this large refractor. Lewis Swift independently discovered the galaxy later that year on 2 Dec 1885 with the 16" refractor at the Warner Observatory. Swift's position is just 6 tsec east of UGC 1908 = PGC 9292.

400/500mm - 17.5" (12/23/92): faint, small, round, pretty smooth low surface brightness. Located 10' NW of mag 9.1 SAO 92955.

Notes by Steve Gottlieb